Nature wars : essays around a contested concept /: essays around a contested concept. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roy Ellen.
• Authors: Ellen, R. F, 1947-
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn' Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid; Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia; Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature; Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations; Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science; Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity; Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka?; Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding; Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of ‘Living Things’; Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems? References; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.2; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Ethnoscience; Ethnoscience -- Indonesia; Philosophical anthropology; Ethnoecology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789208986
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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